Were the 2 girls that died on the SFO flight seat belted?

[AaronX]

@Monty

Regarding the flight attendants (female flight attendants are still referred to in Korea as /stewardess), the competition for that job is incredibly intense. University graduates pay to attend stewardess cram schools, paying quite a hefty fee for those cram schools with higher percentages of graduates who make it just into the training phase of an airline’s flight attendant program. This article is pretty informative. With what the applicants have to go through, and training, more training, and even more training after they’re hired, it’s really not a surprise that they’re pretty darn good at their job.

Ok reading the longer thread, I have to wonder: are their flight attendants better trained than their pilots?

[Monty]

@AaronX

Ok reading the longer thread, I have to wonder: are their flight attendants better trained than their pilots?

Unknown. However, it’s quite unlikely that any of their FAs has an opportunity to botch a landing.

[Broomstick]

It’s likely that, under these particular circumstances, the flight attendants had more information regarding post-crash danger in the cabin than the pilots, simply because they could see/smell smoke and actually see damage to the airplane.

[JRDelirious]

@md2000

It seems to me from the pictures that the tail separated back of the passenger compartment, possibly where the galley was (hence the stewardess dislocation issue). If you’re strapped to a wall that suddenly becomes the front wall of a large chunk of flying debris, then lucky to be alive is an operative expression.

Upon coming to rest, a large upper portion of the aft pressure bulkhead is still attached to the fuselage, but it’s torn and ruptured and at least half of it is gone (Picture).

According to the seatmaps, the back of the rear galley seems to hug the curve of the aft bulkhead, so it is plausible the rear of the galley would have departed the airframe.